Posted on February 13, 2012, 1:46 pm, by David Calhoun, under
News.
(no podcast this week – Boo! Check back next week)
Chrome for Android
Google has just released a beta of Chrome for Android, which is available for those running Android Ice Cream Sandwich (aka “the 1%”). This isn’t JavaScript-specific news per se, but it is HUGE news for web devs who are all too familiar [...]
Posted on February 6, 2012, 12:30 pm, by David Calhoun, under
News.
Listen to this week’s podcast (February 6, 2012)
psd.js
psd.js is the beginnings of a Photoshop PSD parser in JavaScript! Right now it only essentially extracts metadata information – such as image size and layer information – but it’s off to a good start! You can even drag and drop files right into the page [...]
Posted on January 30, 2012, 12:01 pm, by David Calhoun, under
News.
Listen to this week’s news roundup (January 30, 2012)
I really should have named today’s update “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, since those were all involved with my commute this unusual morning! This week’s podcasts is surely enough recorded from SFO Airport, so I hope you enjoy the atmosphere and the occasional interruptions!
Enyo.js open-sourced
As you may [...]
Posted on January 20, 2012, 12:19 pm, by David Calhoun, under
News.
Listen to this week’s podcast (January 20, 2012)!
iOS Orientationchange Fix
jQuery Mobile’s Scott Jehl has released iOS-Orientationchange-Fix (read his blog post). This has been a persistent annoyance on iOS since its release. You may be familiar with the mobile viewport tag, which allows you to properly fit sites to fill the screen and be [...]
Posted on January 9, 2012, 3:01 am, by David Calhoun, under
News.
Hello there, it’s been a while! Oh dear, another year has passed. And it seems that I’ve been stocking up a year’s supply of JavaScript tidbits to dump on the unsuspecting populace! Ok, not quite, but I do have quite a backlog, that’s somewhat in chronological order, starting with the newest items:
David [...]
Posted on November 11, 2011, 7:31 pm, by David Calhoun, under
News.
Listen to the podcast for November 11, 2011
insertAdjacentHTML
Mozilla has a nice overview of insertAdjacentHTML, a DOM function that’s intended to supplement innerHTML. It’s a bit less destructive and plays nicely with content that’s already in the DOM. For instance, whereas innerHTML completely blows away whatever is inside the container element, insertAdjacentHTML has handy [...]
Posted on October 30, 2011, 6:22 am, by David Calhoun, under
News.
Listen to this week’s podcast (October 29, 2011) (23:05 minutes)
I’m trying a little something different this week. I hope you guys like pictures.
Brenden Eich + “I Like Ike” mashup by @lonnen
140 byte synthesizer
A while back Jed Schmidt created a simple little project on GitHub called 140 bytes – a simple Gist [...]
Posted on October 10, 2011, 7:08 am, by David Calhoun, under
News.
This week’s podcast (I was hoping to keep it short, but I kept talking and talking… sorry!)
Libraries, frameworks, and code
Cube – open-source visualization for time series data
chainvas – chaining sugar for Canvas
JS-Forth: Forth Interpreter in JavaScript
when.js is a lightweight Promises and when() implementation (from CommonJS)
MongoSpy is a MongoDB monitor that outputs through your browser’s console
Swipe [...]
Posted on September 19, 2011, 10:24 pm, by David Calhoun, under
News.
Listen to this week’s podcast
(Podcast edit: I mistakenly mention Respond.js, which is actually a media query polyfill – I’m actually talking about Responsive images)
Google Dart
By far the biggest news of the week isn’t JavaScript, but rather a language called Dart (formerly Dash?), which certain factions within Google hope will replace JavaScript, according to a leaked [...]
Posted on September 9, 2011, 5:30 pm, by David Calhoun, under
News.
Listen to this week’s podcast (September 9, 2011)
Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture
Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture is a lengthy article by Addy Osmani detailing some basic principles of writing a large-scale JavaScript application. It’s inspired by a classic Nicholas Zakas talk outlining some of the same principles (hey, I think I remember [...]